The NBS Archives are open to the public at the following times:
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
9 a.m. to 12 noon /
12:45 p.m. to 3 p.m.
In July, August and September the Archives are closed to the public.
The Archives will be closed on 18 and 25 February 2025.
Pezinská úverná banka, Pezinok
The bank was founded in 1905 with share capital of 60,000 Austro-Hungarian crowns (K) represented by 600 shares with a nominal value of K 100. The bank was entered in the Companies Register of the Bratislava Royal Court under No 7633/1905 on 19 June 1905 under the Hungarian name Bazini hitelbank, részvénytársaság. The first chairman of the bank’s board of directors was Ľudovít Potancsok.
The articles of association authorised it to carry out transactions with bills of exchange, letters of credit and mortgages, to provide loans and advances for commodities and raw materials, to provide loans to agricultural enterprises, to sell goods on commission, to take deposits on current accounts and to buy and sell real estate.
After the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the establishment of the first Czechoslovak Republic, the bank began using the Slovak name Pezinská úverná banka, účastinná spoločnosť (Pezinok Credit Bank, joint-stock company), which was introduced in 1919.
Alongside this Slovak name, it continued to use the equivalent German name Bösinger Kreditbank, Aktiengesellschaft. Slovak became the official language of business but German was also used. In 1920 the bank’s share capital was raised to 120,000 Czechoslovak crowns (Kč).
Pezinská úverná banka merged with Slovenská ľudová banka, Bratislava, in 1923.
Only a fraction of the documents on the bank’s activities have been preserved: the articles of association of 1905 and a business report from 1920. The fonds was sorted and an inventory was made in the corporate archive of the regional branch of Štátna banka československá in Bratislava in 1965. The inventory was corrected and revised in 2015 in the Archives of Národná banka Slovenska at 8 Cukrová Street in Bratislava, where the fonds has been kept since 2003.
Last updated: Friday, December 29, 2023